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Monday, May 13, 2013

How to Kill a Vampire (Series)
Ending a successful book franchise can be messy.
Why fans are outraged by Charlaine Harris's decision to wrap up the Sookie Stackhouse series.

It's hard to kill a vampire.

Five years ago, Charlaine Harris tried to kill Bill Compton, a handsome, brooding vampire in her best-selling supernatural mystery series. She fatally wounded him with a sword in book nine. But her editor fought back. HBO was launching "True Blood," a TV show based on Ms. Harris's books. Killing off a main character and romantic lead could damage the franchise at a moment when millions of new readers were discovering it. Ms. Harris rewrote the scene. Bill got bitten and poisoned, but stayed undead for four more books.